Mrs Aurel Kanagaratnam
Ingredients
- 2 tablepsoons milk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 5 egg yolks
- 300 ml cream whipped
- 2 tablepsoons Grand Marnier
- Any Berry fruit to garnish… or a mixture of fruit
Easy Grand Marnier Dessert
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Author Archives: Helen Jackson
Easy Marmalade – Radio Live
Ingredients
- 6 pieces citrus fruit – grapefruit, lemons, oranges
- 12 cups water
- 12 cups sugar
Brandied Fruits
Velda Keenan
Ingredients
- 410 g can sliced peaches
- 410 g can pitted cherries (black)
- 410 g can apricots
- 200 g can crushed pineapple
- 1 cup chopped prunes
- 1/2 cup seeded raisins
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cinnamon quill
- 1 cup brandy
- 1/2 cup port
Sugar and Spice Nuts
Ingredients
- 70 g of each of the following nuts:
- Brazil nuts
- Walnt halves
- Hazel nuts
- Almonds
- unsalted cashew nuts
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup caster sugar mixed with 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Gourmet White Rocky Road
Amy Cooper
Ingredients
- 300 g pink marshmallows
- 300 g turkish delight
- 1/4 cup shelled pistachio nuts
- 450 g good quality white chocolate
Method
Grease two 8 cm x 26 cm bar cake tins. Line base and sides with baking paper. Chop marshmallows and turkish delight into small pieces. Melt the chocolate in the microwave or in a double boiler. Combine turkish delight, marshmallows and nuts in a large bowl, working quickly, stir in the melted chocolate. Spread the mixture into the prepared tins and press mixture down firmly to flatten the top. Refrigerate until set then cut as required
Disclaimer:
The recipe above has been supplied by a member of the public and has not been individually tested by Helen Jackson. Helen Jackson does not accept any liability in relation to publication of this recipe.
Overnight Plum Pudding.
This makes a lovely dark pudding and you would not know there was so little fruit in it.
Serves 6-8.
Ingredients
- 2 teacups flour
- 1 teacup sugar
- 1 teacup currants
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 2 tablespoons shreddo
- 2 cups boiling water.
Pork, Cranberry and Walnut Christmas Turkey Stuffing
Ingredients
- 100g dried cranberries
- 50ml port
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 3 slices streaky bacon, chopped
- 50g butter
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 450g pork sausage meat
- 150g (approximately 1 1/2 cups) fresh white or brown breadcrumbs
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs – parsley, chives, coriander
- 100g walnuts, chopped
- 1 medium egg, lightly beaten
Christmas Whiskey Log
Anne.
To gift wrap I wrap the logs in cellophane and tie the ends like a christmas cracker.
Ingredients
- 2 packets chocolate chippie biscuits
- 100 g butter
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup whiskey
- 400 g mixed dried fruit
- 200 g dark chocolate
Spiced Macadamia Nuts
Chris Mackay
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 125g sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground chilli
- 350g macadamia nuts
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
Plum Pudding (Gluten and Lactose free )
The mixture is a most unlikely looking combination prior to cooking but dont fret, when cooked it will be a fabulous change.
Susannah Greenslade.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons sago soaked in 1 1/4 cups soy milk (Soylife lite) overnight
- 1 1/2 cups wheat free fresh breadcrumbs
- 1/2 c sugar
- 1 dessert spoon golden syrup
- 1 teaspoonn baking soda
- 50 g low fat spread (butter substitute)
- 1 1/2 – 2 cups mixed dried fruit
Irish Christmas Pudding
Angela Craig, Winchester, UK
Ingredients
- 250 g butter
- 250 g fresh breadcrumbs
- 250 g sugar
- 250 g raisins
- 250 g sultanas
- 75 g chopped almonds
- 75 g cherries, halved
- 1/2 grated nutmeg
- 1 glass of whiskey or brandy
- 6 eggs, whisked
Brown Sugar Shortbread with Strawberries and White Chocolate Dip
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 250g Pams butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup cornflour
- 1 3/4 cups flour
1 tablespoon white sugar - Dip
- 150ml cream
- 150g white chocolate
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 punnet strawberries
Italian Dandelion Salad
Lynley Ruck
Ingredients
- 225 g dandelion leaves
- 3 tablespoons good olive oil
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh hersb such as chervil, tarragon, parsley
- handful black olives
- sea salt
Salsa Verde
Serves 6.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup flat leaf parsley
- 1/4 cup mint leaves
- 1/4 cup basil leaves
- 2 tablespoons capers, drained
- 6 anchovy fillets in oil, drained
- 2 cloves garlic
- I slice good white bread, crusts removed
- 1-2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
